What if Rick and Evelyn from the “Mummy” movie series or Indiana Jones had been able to use artificial intelligence (AI)? We ...

It's for this particular reason that LiDAR has become an indispensable tool for the archaeology community as it gives them an ...

The discovery of ancient cities in Asia and the Americas point to earlier bouts of social and climatic upheavals. The good ...

Thomas’ research on Mayan settlements had him poking around on the internet which led him to data that helped him uncover a ...

Archaeology's digital revolution is revealing traces of ancient civilizations previously invisible and solving mysteries. Water supplies in the Angkor Civilization visualized by a LiDAR survey ...

In January 2023, archaeologists discovered lost Amazon cities, home to 10,000 farmers 2,000 years ago, revealing a ...

In the 2023 paper, the researchers, led by Xiamen University associate professor Shangguan Mingjia, unveiled the world’s first single-photon Raman lidar system, capable of operating at 1,000 ...

"Lidar is revolutionising archaeology the way the Hubble Space Telescope revolutionised astronomy," Francisco Estrada-Belli, a Tulane University archaeologist, told National Geographic.

They uncovered the hidden complex - which they have called Valeriana - using Lidar, a type of laser survey that maps structures buried under vegetation. They believe it is second in density only ...

Swisstopo makes LiDAR and other geodata freely available ... of Asterix and Obelix – is a fascinating challenge. As one archaeology student in Graubünden put it, “‘it’s like a puzzle ...

The use of laser mapping systems to create 3D documentation of archaeological sites has grown significantly in the past 5 years. Project MAP will integrate terrestrial and mobile laser mapping (LIDAR) ...